Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The best-known 20th century Ukrainian novelist is … ? No, not Marina Lewycka, author of the prize-winning British novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which won a clutch of prizes in 2005 and sold
Tony Hall is a former San Francisco DA. He’s seen the results of prohibition and drug dependency up close. In other words, he knows what he’s talking about. Here’s his solution to the drug crisis, particularly with regard to the black market. The black market supplying drugs
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine
Scott Atlas brownstone.org Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. It was February 2020 and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming
Capitalist This morning I was reading a thoughtful essay on The BFD by Matt Judd where he covered quite a lot of ground regarding the changes of the last couple of years. He mentions enemies within, plans to subjugate the entire population and various other sick, demented things that are
Lauren Southern was right: once again, the Boomers have ruined everything. As analysis of voting trends shows, the only demographic who voted for Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen were les codgers, the over-60s and 70s. Thanks, grandpere et grandmere. But, if Le Pen has lost the presidency, she’s
Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. Exactly what Donald Trump warned smirking EU leaders — especially Angela Merkel — is coming to pass: Russia is moving to cut off the gas supplies that they are absolutely dependent on. I might also note that it looks like I’ve been
If you’re worried that Western countries are rapidly establishing a Chinese-style Social Credit System, why, you’re just a nutbag, right-wing conspiracy theorist, and probably racist. Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes that that’s exactly what we’re seeing unfold right in front of us: the ABC are
As Australia found this week, money can buy many things, but it can’t buy loyalty. At least, not from the grasping, tin-pot panjandrums of micro-nations, whose only political compass is, “gimme, gimme, gimme”. Australia has increasingly focused its $4 billion per annum foreign aid budget in the South Pacific.
There ought to be few illusions that PM Scott Morrison is fighting the 2022 election against the odds. While Morrison should not be underestimated as a campaigner — and so far, he has scarcely set a foot wrong — he has apparently spent the last three years doing everything he could to
Paul Frijters Gigi Foster Michael Baker brownstone.org Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor
Malta is one of the most Catholic countries in the world. It also historically suffered bloodily at the hands of Muslim invaders perhaps worse than almost anywhere else – twice. Which makes the current Pope’s refusal to display a Christian cross during a recent visit to the island, lest it
Sam Harris once posed the question: If Islam really is a “religion of peace”, then shouldn’t its extremists be extremely peaceful? Instead, “Islamic extremism” is a byword for often appalling violence. Certainly, some Islamic theologians such as Australia’s Imam Tawhidi make a compelling case that, over the centuries,
Pope Francis, when addressing the Easter crowds at the Vatican, said it was an ‘Easter of War’. This was not absolutely correct as it is the Catholic’s Easter but not Easter for the 30m Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who were celebrating Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Worshippers held
It’s more than a month since I first wondered, Has Putin Been Lured into a Trap? Was the US and NATO game plan a cynical ploy to fight Russia by proxy to the last Ukrainian, leaving them free to deal with China? As it turns out, I’m not
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